This is the establishing shot of the opening two minutes of the film 'Alliance'. This picture shows the main character Agent Sinclair. This shot is part of the interrogation scene where he is held hostage. This shows that he is being held at gun point by one of the villains, this gives the audience the impression that he is in danger. The type of shot is a high angle shot which makes the audience feel in control and to make him seem more vulnerable. The font of the writing shows that it is very serious which relates to the character. Also the text is in capitals and it is white, the is a convention of action films.
This is a shot from the interrogation scene. This character is seen as an accomplice to Agent Sinclair in the flashback scene but it turns out that he is working behind his back by working with the villains. This shot is taken from Agent Sinclair's point of view. This close up shot makes the audience feel that he is looking at them. It makes him seem a lot more intimidating. This is an example of shot reverse shot. The character shown is seen to be looking in the direction in which Agent Sinclair is sitting, therefore shot reverse shot is present.
This shot is of a villain leading Agent Sinclair on. He is on the phone to Agent Sinclair asking him to meet him in a location that is out of the way. For the phone call we used match on action to film the conversation. This shot was fairly difficult to film. This is because we wanted to have the car park in the background of the shot, we had to stop a few times as there was cars driving in the background. At this point in the opening two minutes the audience will believe that he is working with Agent Sinclair, but that is not the outcome as he eventually teams up with the antagonists and go's against Agent Sinclair.
This shot is part of our fast paced scenes. This is a long shot, we tried to do a lot of shots in the fast paced scene from many different angles. We wanted to have a fast paced scene as it is a common convention of an action film. This shot was quite hard to film as we couldn't really use the tripod properly as the ground was not flat so it was hard to have the camera completely still. We had to go back on a different day and film the fast paced scene again as we saw when in the editing process the camera was not steady. Having the camera still is very important.
This is the scene where Agent Sinclair finds out that his so called 'accomplice' is working against him. This shot was hard to film as there was a lot of cars were driving past in the background. The audience would think that there is tension as Agent Sinclair is being held at gunpoint. Agent Sinclair drove to this car park on his moped and was expecting to see this character with the intel he had asked for, but instead he found out that this man had been working behind his back and he was subsequently held at gunpoint.
This is the last scene of our opening two minutes. This is the scene where Agent Sinclair escapes from the villains. He escapes by pushing one of the villains to the floor. This shot was quite hard to film as this place was very cramped. This scene comes after the flashback scene. Their is a fade to black transition to show the change of scene. This leaves the film on a bit of a cliff hanger as it will leave the audience wondering what will happen next. This will keep the audience intrigued as they will want to know what happens at the end of the film.
This shot shows Agent Sinclair hiding from the villains, Sinclair was running away as he had just pushed one of the villains to the ground and was getting chased. In this shot Sinclair is calling his office telling them that he put the intel underneath the bin. This is the shot which includes the most dialogue. We had to film this shot quite a lot of times. This was because the character had to speak a lot and he also had to speak fairly quickly as he was shown to be in a hurry. The character kept jumbling his words up so we had to film until he got them right.
This shot shows the power slide. We wanted to include a power slide as it can be seen as a stunt which is a convention of an action film. We had to film this shot a number of times, this is because it is a fairly hard thing to do. Also we had to move the camera when the Moped slid along the surface, this was fairly easy to do as we had the tripod with us. Secret agents stereo typically power slide their vehicle. Also when we were filming this scene there were cars driving past, so we had to wait until the road was clear to film the shot. If we had filmed the shot with cars in the background it would make the location seem less discrete and hidden. We were trying to make the location seem fairly hidden as it was the meeting point for a secret agent.
This is the last shot of the filming outside. The shot shows one of the villains creeping up behind Agent Sinclair and smashing his head against the bin. After this shot there is a fade to black transition which shows the change of location when moving back to the interrogation scene. In this scene Agent Sinclair had just finished telling his associates where he had left the 'intel' after knocking one of the villains to the ground. This shot shows violence which is conventional of an action film. This shot is a high angle shot as it shows Agent Sinclair looking vulnerable. This was quite hard to film as we tried to make the smash of the head as realistic as possible.
